Pooled Funds

Total 2025 Allocations (US$)

$473.4M

Countries Assisted with 2025 Allocations

In April 2025, the OCHA-managed Pooled Funds allocated $89.4 million in grants to nine countries to enable essential and life-saving humanitarian assistance. Of this amount, the Country-Based Pooled Funds (CBPF) and Regional Humanitarian Pooled Funds allocated $69.3 million, while the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) allocated $20.1 million.

By end of April, donor contributions to the CBPFs are projected to reach $513.2 million, which is more than the $472.7 million recorded at the same time last year. So far in 2025, 27 donors have contributed to CBPFs, including from the private sector and regional authorities, compared to 31 for the same period in 2024. Total projected donor contributions to the CERF in 2025 are $409 million, the lowest since 2009.

CERF is expanding its support for anticipatory action. On 17 April, the Emergency Relief Coordinator (ERC) approved a $10 million AA framework to address the growing risk of drought in Afghanistan. At the same time, the Afghanistan Humanitarian Fund allocated $10 million. This marks a significant milestone: the first-ever joint anticipatory action framework developed between CERF and the CBPF, with $20 million pre-arranged between the two funding mechanisms. The framework is designed to act on specifically defined thresholds—such as climate and food security indicators—that signal an impending emergency. When these thresholds were crossed in mid-April, the trigger was activated, resulting in an immediate $6.6 million allocation from CERF to implement early interventions.

By acting before a crisis escalates, this joint framework aims to reduce human suffering, protect livelihoods, and optimize the impact of limited humanitarian resources. It demonstrates a growing commitment to more efficient, data-driven, and cost-effective humanitarian response.

For more information about allocations, please visit the CBPFs’ Data Hub and CERF's website.

CERF continues to advance anticipatory action, with the Emergency Relief Coordinator (ERC) approving a $10 million framework for drought in Afghanistan on 17 April. The framework is the first joint CBPF-CERF AA framework with $20 million pre-arranged by both funds. Trigger thresholds were reached mid-April, activating one trigger window leading to an allocation of $6.6 million from CERF.

CENTRAL EMERGENCY RESPONSE FUND

Allocations endorsed by the ERC as of 30 April 2025

April Allocations (US$)

$20.1M

Total 2025 Allocations (US$)

$183.2M

Countries Assisted with Allocations in April

Allocations in focus: In April, CERF provided a $2.5 million allocation through the Rapid Response window to support humanitarian assistance for Congolese refugees who fled to neighbouring Burundi following escalated fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, particularly after the capture of Bukavu by M23 rebels. Refugees are facing severe conditions, including overcrowded shelters, limited food and medical supplies, and heightened health risks. The CERF allocation targets refugees and vulnerable host communities and will provide immediate, life-saving assistance across the Shelter/Non-food Items, Protection, Health, and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sectors, and among others help the distribution of emergency shelter materials, protection monitoring, deployment of mobile health clinics, and improvement of water and sanitation facilities.

COUNTRY-BASED POOLED FUNDS

Allocations launched by 30 April 2025

April Allocations (US$)

$69.3M

Total 2025 Allocations (US$)

$290.2M

Countries Assisted with Allocations in April

Allocation in focus: In April, the South Sudan Humanitarian Fund allocated $3 million to respond to the needs of over 100,000 people who have crossed into South Sudan through Renk since January 2025. The influx of displaced populations has severely strained local services, leading to sanitation challenges, overcrowding, and a rise in infectious diseases, including cholera. The already fragile healthcare system now faces mounting pressure to deliver prevention, treatment, and disease surveillance services. The allocation from the SSHF seeks to bolster humanitarian assistance by prioritizing inclusive, life-saving services for the most vulnerable populations in key locations across the Joda, East, and West corridors in Renk.

What’s new in the Pooled Funds?

Humanitarian Funds Annual Reports: detailed achievements of OCHA-managed pooled funds in Afghanistan. Democratic Republic of Congo, Lebanon, Nigeria and the Occupied Palestinian Territory are reflected in the recently released annual publications.

Pooled Funds Impact Story

IDPs in North Darfur: supporting a Ramadan harvest

Sudan, North Darfur

Al-Fateh Al-Kenzi, a 55-year-old teacher who fled El Fasher in June 2023 because of the war, found shelter at the Ketab Shakara School in Mellit. Life isn’t easy for Mr. Al-Kenzi and his family. They left behind everything they owned when they were displaced. And in Mellit, some 300 people are sleeping on the floor of the school, sharing limited resources.

After two years of conflict, Sudan has become one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises. Armed conflict and attacks against civilians, displacement, hunger, malnutrition, disease, and climate shocks have left nearly two-thirds of the population in desperate need of humanitarian assistance and protection.

The conflict has triggered massive displacement, with some 11.5 million people having fled their homes since the fighting began in April 2023, many of whom were already displaced. Mellit alone is home to over 50,000 displaced people, and the area is currently classified as potentially facing a famine situation.

With funding from the Sudan Humanitarian Fund, COOPI (Cooperazione Internazionale) provided crop seeds and clean drinking water for people sheltering in this school and other displacement sites. In the midst of this dire crisis, the intervention has provided some relief.

For Mr. Al-Kenzi, the safe water keeps his children healthy. “The water provided by COOPI has helped us a lot. We used to consume unsafe water, but now we have clean treated water, and the children are not at risk of diarrhoea anymore." He also got seeds and farming tools from COOPI. “I planted watermelons and harvested them – ready for the Ramadan season when they are in high demand, and this income has helped me support my family.”

Based on original story from COOPI Sudan.

For more information: visit the Sudan Humanitarian Fund and find real-time contribution and allocation data on the Pooled Funds Data Hub.